Clothes-holder.



No. 887,134. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908. S. S. SMITH.

CLOTHES HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED mm: 24. 1907.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908. J

Application filed June 2%, 1 907. erm]. N 380,504..

.To on whom it may) concern:

Be it known that I, SHEPHERD STEVENS SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of th'ecity of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York,-have invented anew and Improved Clothes-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to clothes holders, my more particular. object being to produce a device suitable for supporting garments, bed clothes, and other articles madeof cloth,

so as to facilitate the bleaching of such arti-V cles by aid of the dew and grass, yet without allowing the articles in question to rest directly upon the ground.

Briefly considered my invention consists of a device provided with a clip for gripping the edge of the article to be treated, and further rovided with a portion to be thrust,,

into t e soil so as to support the article at a slight-distance above the ground, the latter being preferably covered with grass. My invention further consists in forming the device in question from a single'piece of wire, so bent upon itself as to form the clip .and supporting shank.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures Fi re 1 is a perspective of my invention as u ed for the urpose of supporting a sheet a few inches a ove the ground; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the clothes holder, the sheet be ing removed; Fig. 3 is a vertical cross sec tion through the clothes holder upon the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow and showing also the pointed end of the vertical shanlg; and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective of another form of the device, which in this instance is provided with a s iral shank. J a

' wire is fashioned to form ashank 5, and sharpened at its lower end so as to form a point 6, and is bent at 7 so as to become-horizontal, and also bent at 8 and formed into a substantially semicircular portion 9. It is 10, and 'for this purpose the wire is bent s ghtly inward at the points 10. At 11 the wire is further bent substantially into the form of a circle,

and at 12 is bent slightly inward and then slightly outward, so as to form at 13 another lip analogous to the lip 10 and quite close to 'a sheet 15, or other cloth member, and

.form a tip 23.

the seine. The wire is also curved at 14 substantially into the form ofa semicircle an terminates in a tip 15 bent abruptly upward and enga ing the bend 8 as indicated in Fig.

2. The 1p 10 is given a slight inclination upward and the lip 13 a slight inclination downward, so that the parts occupy subi tantially the relative positions indicated in The point 6 is driven into the groundb hand. The operator merely grasps the shanlz 5, laces the point 6 against the ground and presses downwardly. If, however, the ground is hard a slight blow can be administered at a point immediately adjacent to the bend 7, so as to force ,the point 6 into the ground with comparative ease.

A suflicient number of the clothes holders being placed'in position, the operator takes forces its edges or corners intermediate the lips 10, -13: This pries these parts asunder and more of the garment is forced between the rings formed by the curved portions 9, 11.

Referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the device comprises practicall Y an upperv ring and a lower ring, connecte together at one point of their respective surfaces and a a ted to be sprung a art so as to admit the e go of the cloth mem er to be su ported.

To remove the-garments, a 1 that is necessary is to pull them horizontally until they are extracted, the device then assuming the normal position indicated in Fig. 3. The slight inclinationrgiven to the two'li s 10, 13 serves .to facilitate the entrance of t e edges or corners of the clothes to be supported.

. In the form shown inFi 4, the construction'is'the same .as that indicated in the other figures, with the exception that the shank 16 is given a'spiral or core screw form to enable it to be readily driven into the earth. The lower end of theshank is shown at 1.7, the horizontal portion at 18 an the various curved portions at 19, 20, 21, 22, the end of the wire being bent abruptly upward so as to I do not limit myself to any articular material out of which the clothes iiolder may be made, but otlfer meta not easily corroded.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desireoto secure by Letters Patent A clothes holder, comprising a single inte- 1 Iprefer to use galvanized iron or gral iece of wire provided with a sharpened tending substentialx at a right angle from end or entering the soil, and further prothe planes occupied y said rings vided with portions bent circularly around. In testimony ,yvhe'reof I have signed my 50 as to form two rings parallel with each nameto this specification in the presence of 5 olthergi, ear-Iii ring thawing {a lip slightly intwo subscribing witnesses.

cine ,sak rin s ein e to et er at one v I I oint in their dircumf rence adapted to FX STEVENS SMITH e sprung apart in order to facilitsite the in- Witnesses: sertion therebet'ween of a cloth member the WALTON HARRISON,

.0 general direction of said sharpened en ex- Joms' P.v DAVIS. 

